Mark 14:1-11
Jesus Anointed at Bethany
1 Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him. 2 "But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot."3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.6 "Leave her alone," said Jesus. "Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them. 11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.the part of this passage that i find interesting is when the woman broke a whole jar of perfume and poured the perfume on Jesus' head then the people that were there rebuked her for wasting the perfume. relating to our lives today, breaking the jar of perfume and pouring the perfume on Jesus would be like giving all to Jesus and the people who rebuked the woman would be ppl who think that there are more important things before God like school or something. I think a lot of people reading this would be like " oh my.. those ppl (the people who rebuked the woman) are soo bad" its true i wud think that too but the thing is... are we like the woman who gave it all or the ppl who did nothing. i think for me right now... im like the ppl. i kinda slacked off with mi devos and had other priorities before God. i didnt give it all for God, i would rather do homework and watch tv rather than devos. i was like those ppl... i was using my time to do hmwk instead of reading my Bible... on earth, all the time that i used and will use for school MIGHT be useful... u kno... MAYBE a good job or wutever BUT if all the time was spent for reading the Bible... it wud FO SHOO benefit me in toooooo many ways to say.
how i am gonna apply this to my life? Be like the woman!! wut i will try to do is... read the Bible before i do my homework. its gonna be a hard but i am up for it.
